Information for Students

As a start to get familiar with MDAnalysis and open source development you
should follow these steps:

Complete the Tutorial

We have a tutorial explaining the basics of MDAnalysis. You should go through
the tutorial at least once to understand how MDAnalysis is used.

Introduce yourself to us

Introduce yourself on the mailing list. Tell us what you plan to work
on during the summer or what you have already done with MDAnalysis

Close an issue of MDAnalysis

You must have at least one commit in the development branch of
MDAnalysis in order to be eligible, i.e.. you must demonstrate that
you have been seriously engaged with the MDAnalysis project.

We have a list of easy bugs to work on in our issue tracker on
GitHub. We also appreciate if you write more tests or update/improve
our documentation. To start developing for MDAnalysis have a look at
our guide for developers and write us on the
mailing list if you have more questions about setting up a
development environment.